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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Big Wheel Cub Llc CCX-2000
N281BT is a Big Wheel Cub Llc CCX-2000, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2025. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Big Wheel Cub LLC, an LLC in Whitefish, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 15, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 28, 2025.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Big Wheel Cub Llc
- Model
- CCX-2000
- Serial number
- CCX-2000-0224
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming CC363I · 186 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- A2D1DD (octal 50550735)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 15, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 15, 2025
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 28, 2025
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01507219
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Big Wheel Cub LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 424 Baker Ave Unit 550
Whitefish, MT 59937-7024
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N281BT links to the rest of the register
- Big Wheel Cub Llc 1 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming CC363I 219 aircraft with this engine series · 186 hp
- Big Wheel Cub LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Whitefish, MT 84 aircraft registered in this town
- Whitefish Airport · 58S
- Montana 6,041 aircraft registered
- Report filed on this aircraft: Yoke, corroded · 2007-05-14
- Report filed on this aircraft: Rod End, corroded · 2007-05-14
- Report filed on this aircraft: Clamp, cracked · 2005-04-06
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The public federal record on N281BT, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Big Wheel Cub LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 15, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 28, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CCX-2000-0224 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N281BT according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N281BT. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data